Guifx, designers of high-definition, user-friendly, graphical user interfaces, today announced immediate availability of products for Vantage/Legrand, manufacturers of intelligent, touch panel control systems for luxury residential electronic systems. Guifx’s Graphic Set and Template products are available for select Vantage/Legrand hardware today, with the entire line of full color touch panels soon to follow.

Vantage dealers can edit Guifx templates for their projects in the InFusionTM Design Center. Downloads will install directly into the program and appear as themes within the drop down menu in the Touch Panel Designer program. The first two styles available are called Meta and Adaptation, with additional templates to follow. They can be downloaded individually for manual build-up, or dealers can purchase the complete package of prebuilt, professionally laid out designs.

“The partnership with Guifx will take our touch panel designs to the next level,” says Andrew Wale, Marketing Vice President for Vantage/Legrand. “These templates not only cut down on programming time to increase productivity, but also bring a new level of usability to our clients.”
Guifx is the largest provider of professionally designed touch panel graphics in the world, and launched the first commercially available touch panel template in 2002. They specialize in the design of the interactive and aesthetic qualities of the touch screens incorporated into many whole house installations, streamlining and integrating complicated systems into one user friendly network. Guifx also offers templates compatible with Crestron, AMX, and RTI products.

Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx adds, “It is always exciting for us to bring our products to a new manufacturer. We’re happy to have the opportunity to expand our product line and make it accessible to all the professionals at Vantage/Legrand.”

Our newest Graphic Set titled “Hyperglass” will bring the future to your touchpanel. And the future is BRIGHT with the hi-impact, 3-dimensional style of Hyperglass. Partially transparent, fully amazing, Hyperglass looks great on top of almost any color or background image.

Hyperglass can be easily customized. Use the Photoshop version of Hyperglass to modify the buttons to any color you wish. We’ve included special adjustment layers to allow easy 1-step color adjustments for both the button and surrounding chrome area on the cursor independently. Check out the video on the Hyperglass product page to see exactly how it’s done.

For more information on Hyperglass or to purchase Hyperglass, go here. For more information on Guifx Graphic Sets, read this entry.

Note from the designer: This is my first entry in our blog. It’s a pretty big deal for me. I designed Hyperglass and I’m really proud of it. I sincerely hope you like it too. As a designer you really never know how your work will be received. Well, I put it out there for you and if you’re so inclined, I (and I’m sure quite a few others here at Guifx) would love to hear what you think. For better or worse.

Early this morning, we updated our store front to announce the forthcoming release of new graphic products for Vantage Controls.

On May 1st, we will begin to roll out new Template and Graphic Set products for use with Vantage Controls’ InFusion Design Center software. Vantage templates deliver the seamless user experience you’ve come to expect from Guifx. Visit the official announcement page for the full details and a small teaser.

Vantage and Guifx will be working closely together to bring the best possible user experience to our customers. Expect much more from both camps as we get closer to May 1st.

This morning, we released 3 products in an all new category called Background Sets. Guifx Background Sets, are a collection of hi-res images that were meticulously chosen to kick your ordinary looking touch-panel designs into a whole new dimension.

Our new Background Set products are named Celestial, Digital, and Natural. Check them all out – we’re confident you’ll be as excited as we are to bring them to you.

Each Background Set contains 8 images of impeccable quality. Our images are served in the highly compatible JPEG format, at a whopping 1550×1120 pixels. We went out of our way to bring you images with a wide variety of colors and truck-loads of contrast. Our goal with Background Sets is to make your touch-panels POP!

Like all other Guifx products, Background Set purchases are subject to free updates whenever the product is revised. So what are you waiting for? Check them out now.

Have an idea for a background set you’d like to see? Drop us a line in the comments and let your voice ring out!

We are always updating our software to meet the needs of our beloved touch panel designers. Today we’d like to introduce you to our latest software endeavor, CoPilot.

CoPilot is a software suite that encompasses all the touch-panel design solutions we’ve pioneered and improved on since 2002. Inside CoPilot you’ll find new versions of the tools you’ve grown familiar with and more.

Logo Tools version 2.0 boasts several user interface improvements. As always, it is the preferred tool to dynamically transform any collection of logos into beautifully styled interface buttons.

Koloroo is now baked right into CoPilot. Interactively browse over 100 million color schemes using our award winning Color Brain Technology.

Image Resizer (formerly Icon Tools), has been improved to quickly batch resize, or thumbnail, any collection of images to a size appropriate for any project. The output image size can be previewed in real-time using either fixed width or percentage inputs.

Background Maker is a completely new product that can be used to quickly crop and resize any digital image to the correct size required to be the background image on a touch panel. An interactive masking area and built-in presets of standard touch-panel resolutions help eliminate what could take hours of trial and error in expensive, more complex image editing software.

One of the best features of CoPilot is automatic updates. We’ve eliminated the need to manually check for software and Network Logo updates. Every time you load CoPilot it’ll check that you’re running the latest version and update itself. Simple, eh?

For more details including software descriptions and video tutorials, check out CoPilot here.

Guifx and RTI are at it again. If you weren’t already aware, our Aero Icon Set was licensed by RTI for their Integration Designer software. The only problem has been that Aero gets updated on a different schedule than Integration Designer releases. Solution? We’re making free updates available immediately right here on our web site with a downloadable patch.

The free Aero RTI Bitmap Library overwrites the version included with Integration Designer titled Universal Source Icons 2. It currently includes many additional icons and even more updates are around the corner.

The update requires that Integration Designer is currently installed and includes icons in the standard 72×72, 112×112, and 152×152 pixel resolutions.

NOTE: The RTI Bitmap Library version of Aero works exclusively with RTI’s Integration Designer software.

We’ve released an all new Icon Set this morning called Nexgen. Nexgen is fully dedicated to the love we have for video games and gamers. We also built Nexgen to satisfy the need for a photo-realistic, quality-consistent library of video game console graphics. The benefits are the usual glorious bits: Zero design time and close to immediate implementation, Guifx free software companion tool (Icon Tools), redistribution licenses available for software and hardware manufacturers, and best of all, free updates for life.

Nexgen includes 50 icons of staggering beauty, served at a whopping 512 x 512 resolution (Yeah… they’re massive). And, with the set being based on current and past generation video game consoles, all of your favorites are there. Head on over to the store to check Nexgen out in all its digital glory.

We’re introducing this set for only $79.99 as a promotional price for the EH Expo. Get it while it’s hot folks! Nexgen will be there tomorrow, but that price will not be.

Want more icons? Let us know about it in the comments.

It’s a big Friday for our RTI users. Specifically the T4 / K4 fans. Guifx announced this morning that their incredibly popular ‘Adaptation’ Graphic Set has been totally worked over into a gorgeous new RTI Template for use in the Integration Designer software.

For our customers, this new Adaptation design is so much more than just another RTI template release. It’s a beacon of excellence with regards to what Guifx template usability should be. Graphically, Adaptation has always been a proven design. But the amount of time that has gone into making sure Adaptation for RTI is easy to use and sensible for the end-user, is remarkable. We’re confident with what we’ve done here, and we know you’ll love it too.

So far, Adaptation for RTI is only available for the T4 and K4 hardware. But if you love it and can’t wait to have it on your other RTI devices, make sure you let us know. The squeaky wheel gets the grease folks!

Which RTI device would you like to see Adaptation designed for next? Leave us a comment!

Enjoy! Check Adaptation for RTI out here.

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Guifx Graphic Sets save time and end frustration for touch panel system designers. For touch panel system designers, the time consuming process of designing and configuring buttons creates a constant roadblock to efficiency. Software and graphic development firm, Guifx, today introduces the solution. A fully designed, pre-configured set of button graphics that are ready to be used in Crestron, RTI, and AMX design softwares. Guifx calls their latest graphic solution Graphic Sets, and they are available now at www.guifx.com.

Graphic Sets are available in a variety of styles and they are designed to be an effortless addition to any designers workflow. For Crestron and AMX users, Graphic Sets are clipboards that will open as project files in the respective designer software. RTI users will have Graphic Sets installed directly into Integration Designer ready for drag and drop use from their bitmap library. The Graphic Sets include more than fifty different button shapes and are designed to be used together sensibly. They are made to stack, align, and cluster, providing total versatility in screen layout. Each set also includes three cursor sizes. For users wanting even more graphical control, Photoshop documents with export instructions are also available.

“Pre-configured buttons are something we’ve been working on for quite some time,” said Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx. “We knew from our own design efforts that handling buttons takes a significant amount of time. Graphic Sets are one of those perfect little gems born out of necessity. We use them on everything we do.”

Software design firm’s shiny, new online home to bring better service and sales.

At a company whose product never leaves the digital world, from initial conception to eventual download, a website that functions as a store while hosting the intangible product is an obvious advantage from both a marketing and economic standpoint.

Guifx, a technology design firm that has long been focused on designing innovative graphics software, has turned their tech savvy eye to revamping its online home. “We are in an aggressive growth state,” said Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development. “It motivated us to overhaul the online Guifx experience and bring customers a new look and more user friendly format.”

The site is designed to bring their customers better service, new products and a streamlined shopping and support experience. The system designed and coded by Guifx’s own software experts gives greater flexibility to update quickly and deploy new products online.

The aesthetic factors and graphic direction of the website were designed by Dan Wiersema, Art Director. Functionality and flow were refined by the entire team, everyone at Guifx had a part in the final product.